[patch] Documentation/email-clients.txt: add a section about git
From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Wed May 07 2014 - 07:17:52 EST
These days most people don't use git to send patches so I have added a
section about that.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt
index 4e30eba..9004a5fd 100644
--- a/Documentation/email-clients.txt
+++ b/Documentation/email-clients.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
Email clients info for Linux
======================================================================
+Git
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+These days most developers use `git send-email` instead of regular
+email clients. On the receiving end, maintainers use `git am` to
+apply the patches.
+
+If you are new to git then send your first patch to yourself. Save it
+as raw text including all the headers. Run `cat raw_email.txt | git am`
+and then review the changelog with `git log -p`. When that works then
+send the patch to list.
+
General Preferences
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Patches for the Linux kernel are submitted via email, preferably as
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